10 WWE Pay-Per-View Shocks Nobody Could Predict

2. Goldberg Squashing Brock Lesnar In 2016

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The return of Bill Goldberg stoked fires of nostalgia in longtime fans who never felt the WCW phenomenon was given a fair crack of the whip during his ill-fated 2003-2004 run in WWE.

Offering something completely different to the long-winded promos and extended main event matches the promotion favour, the aura of Goldberg and his obvious ring rust meant he was better suited to short bursts of angry speech. Everyone knew his matches had to be brief slices of intensity that wouldn't outstay their welcome.

That doesn't mean anybody saw him beating Brock Lesnar in 86 seconds at the 2016 Survivor Series.

This was the same Lesnar that had broken The Undertaker's WrestleMania winning streak and destroyed John Cena with ease at SummerSlam 2014. An unstoppable beast who had excelled in UFC as much as WWE, the peerless monster was stopped dead by a rampant Goldberg.

As Survivor Series went off the air, few could fathom what they had just seen. This was the shortest WWE pay-per-view main event since Hulk Hogan toppled Yokozuna in hasty fashion at WrestleMania IX in 1993.

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